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tangent4ronpaul
04-26-2011, 04:31 PM
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Washington-Watch/FDAGeneral/26131

The FDA will regulate electronic cigarettes the same way it regulates other tobacco products, the agency has announced.

The government has decided not to appeal a federal appeals court decision holding that e-cigarettes and other products made or derived from tobacco can be regulated as "tobacco products" under federal law "and are not drugs or devices unless they are marketed for therapeutic purposes," Lawrence R. Deyton, MD, the director of the agency's Center for Tobacco Products, and Janet Woodcock, MD, director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, wrote in a letter to stakeholders.

ihsv
04-26-2011, 04:34 PM
Better stock up on e-juice. Next step is to tax it

dannno
04-26-2011, 04:34 PM
Quitting smoking is pretty therapeutic. Government should stay out of everything.

dannno
04-26-2011, 04:35 PM
Better stock up on e-juice. Next step is to tax it

WTF is e-juice?! I like e-drink.

Lucille
04-26-2011, 04:40 PM
GD it. Can't the govt ever just leave anything the f' alone?! In '07, when I first discovered them, the FDA said they had absolutely no interest in regulating e-cigs. They said they were perfectly safe.

ForLibertyFight
04-26-2011, 04:42 PM
Boo

ihsv
04-26-2011, 05:17 PM
WTF is e-juice?! I like e-drink.

e-juice = e-liquid. The stuff you put in the e-cigarette to vape.

dannno
04-26-2011, 05:20 PM
e-juice = e-liquid. The stuff you put in the e-cigarette to vape.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0YXrNNN2YU

Sola_Fide
04-26-2011, 05:26 PM
There is no facet of life these regulators don't want to touch...

Ninja Homer
04-26-2011, 05:34 PM
Believe it or not, this is a win... or at least the lesser of 2 evils. As a tobacco product it will probably be taxed, and that sucks, but it was nearly defined by the FDA as a drug, which would be much worse. Competing with tobacco companies and following tobacco regulations is a lot better than competing with pharmaceuticals and following pharmaceutical regulations.

There's a lot of info here: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/legislation-news/182522-fda-regulate-e-cig-tobacco.html
^^^ They would also be some good candidates to get involved in Ron Paul Revolution 2012.

Lucille
04-27-2011, 10:28 AM
FDA Will Regulate E-Cigarettes As Tobacco Products (http://reason.com/blog/2011/04/27/fda-will-regulate-e-cigarettes)


Although it should be easier for e-cigarettes to stay on the market as tobacco products than as "drug/device combination products," the practical implications of the FDA's new policy are not completely clear. Under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which Congress enacted in 2009, tobacco products that were on the market in the U.S. prior to February 15, 2007, are grandfathered and cannot be banned by the FDA. That provision also covers "substantially equivalent" products. Judging from a Nexis search, e-cigarettes were first sold to Americans in 2007, but there are no references to them as a product available in the United States as early as February of that year. Assuming e-cigarettes don't qualify for the grandfather clause, they would have to be approved by the FDA as "new tobacco products" or as "modified risk tobacco products." In either case, the FDA has substantial leeway to bar their sale.

For Big Tobacco's own good.